2025-05-16

Projects

Resume

• Software Developer

Open Source Contributions

1. GNU Emacs (Code Editor)

   • Resolved a critical decompression vulnerability relating to cross-implementation gzip stream boundaries; engineered a robust verification check to ensure seamless compatibility with alternative implementations like pigz.
   • Commit: 46b6d1

2. slash_tmp (HTTP Server)

   • Architected core architectural features including an HTTP chunked transfer encoding protocol, preventing high-concurrency server crashes by reducing memory footprint to O(1) relative to file size.
   • Implemented native POSIX/Linux signal handling routines to ensure graceful server shutdowns and daemon-like stability.
   • Enhanced network security and protocol compliance by integrating SSL (HTTPS) support and fixing payload mismatches.

3. TLP (Laptop Power Management Utility)

   • Fixed a critical startup initialization failure by refactoring non-POSIX compliant timeouts into standardized, portable alternatives, enabling reliable execution across non-GNU Linux environments.
   • Commit: 9f3ff4

Personal Projects

• sinkhole (wip)
  • Designed a monolithic operating system kernel featuring real-time physical memory mapping, dynamic allocation, and custom IDT/GDT initialization.
  • Integrated modern security standards by implementing compiler-level stack-smashing protection mechanisms alongside a minimal C++ runtime layer. Configured low-level serial I/O and BIOS VGA buffer for diagnostics.
• perfmode
  • Built a lightweight Linux CLI system utility interacting directly with ASUS Notebook kernel modules and ACPI platform profiles to regulate hardware fan states and power envelopes.
  • Delivered an early open-source solution providing hardware control for ASUS laptops before official driver software support was introduced, maintaining deep backwards compatibility with legacy third-party drivers.
• FORTH86
  • Developed a high-performance, Turing-complete FORTH interpreter entirely in bare-metal x86_64 assembly language.
  • Engineered a custom standard library and wrote low-overhead re-implementations of standard C library (libc) routines to optimize execution speed and binary size.
• silly_packer
  • Developed an optimized texture packing and asset serialization asset pipeline utility that compiles modular graphics into compressed, game-ready texture atlases.
  • Programmed an automated C++ header generator supporting static binary blob embedding and optional API wrappers for fluid integration into production game loops.
• mister8
  • Engineered a third-generation CHIP-8 emulator and interpreter utilizing hardware-accelerated graphics and audio playback via the Raylib framework.
  • Validated functional correctness against the industry-standard timendus CHIP-8 test suite to ensure accurate opcode implementation and cross-platform compatibility.
• c8fontgen
  • Created a graphical pixel-editor utility optimized for designing custom bitmap fonts for CHIP-8 emulators, providing seamless clipboard integration and structured hexadecimal output parsing.
• telegram discord bridge
  • Architected a unidirectional messaging bridge facilitating cross-platform content distribution between Telegram and Discord.
  • Leveraged Python-based automation integrating Discord bot APIs with Telegram user account workflows to enable seamless cross-posting and content aggregation.
• Homelab
  • Provisioned and maintained a self-hosted cloud infrastructure platform leveraging bare-metal container runtimes (Docker/Podman) and secure network topologies.
  • Configured encrypted reverse-proxy routing via remote FRPS tunnels traversing Oracle Cloud infrastructure to securely expose decentralized communication endpoints (Matrix Homeserver).
  • Deployed high-availability local services including centralized media delivery systems (Jellyfin, *arr stack) and network-level security via BlockyDNS routing.